
OFFICIAL T>OTsTATION. 



LAWS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 



RELATING TO 



PUBLIC SCHOOLS 



COMPILED FROM 



PUBLIC STATUTES AND SESSION LAWS OF 

1891, 1893, 1895, 1897, 1899, 1901, 

1903, 1905, 1907 




DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION 



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SCHOOL LAWS. 



Amount re- 
quired bylaw. 



Towns may 
raise addi- 
tional. 

Towns may 
raise money . 



School money 
maj r be used 
for what. 



SCHOOL MONEY. 

The selectmen in each town shall 
assess annually upon the polls and 
ratable estate taxable therein, a sum 
to be computed at the rate of seven 
hundred and fifty dollars for every dol- 
lar of the public taxes apportioned to 
such town, and so for a greater or less 
sum. 

[For the public taxes, see session 
Laws of 1907, also blanks for annual 
report to this office. Multiply taxes 
for your town by 750. The result will 
be the money required by law.] 

The town may raise a sum exceed- 
ing the amount aforesaid, which shall 
be assessed in the same manner. 

Towns may, at any legal meeting, 
grant and vote such sums of money as 
they shall judge necessary to support 
schools, to build and repair school- 
houses. 

[But see also chapter 121, Laws of 
1907, page 17 of this volume for 
special meetings.] 

The sums so raised shall be appro- 
priated to the sole purpose of main- 
taining public schools within the town 
for teaching reading, writing, English 
grammar, arithmetic, geography, and 
such other branches as are adapted 
to the advancement of the schools, in- 
cluding the purchase of fuel and other 
supplies, the making of occasional re- 
pairs upon schoolhouses, appurte- 
nances, and furniture, and the convey- 



Chapter 88, 
section 1, as 
amended by 
chapter 48* of 
the session 
laws of 1905. 



Chapter S 
section 2. 



Chapter 40, 
section 4. 



Chapter 88. 
section 3. 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



Assignment to 
districts. 



ance of scholars to and from school as 
provided by law. 

[Occasional repairs are those involv- 
ing a small expenditure, not repairs 
which amount to remodeling. For the 
latter, special appropriations should 
he made.] 

The school board of every district 
shall provide schools at such places 
within the district and at such times 
in each year as will best subserve the 
interests of education, and will give to 
all scholars of the district as nearly 
equal advantages as may be practi- 
cable. They may use a portion of the 
school money, not exceeding twenty- 
five per cent., for the purpose of con- 
veying scholars to and from the 
schools. 

The school board shall select and 
hire suitable and competent teachers 
holding certificates as provided by law, 
shall provide necessary fuel, and shall 
make such occasional repairs of the 
schoolhouses and furniture as may be 
necessary, not exceeding in cost five 
per cent, of the school money. 

[Certificates provided by law are 
those required to be issued by the local 
school board, good in the district in 
which they are issued, and those is- 
sued by the superintendent of public- 
instruction, good anywhere in the 
state.] 

The selectmen shall assign to each 
district a proportion of such money, 
according to the valuation of the dis- 
trict for the year, or in such other 
manner as the town, at the annual 
meeting, shall direct, and shall pay 
over the same to the school board of 
the district. 

When a guardian and ward reside in 
the same town, the selectmen shall 
assign the tax assessed upon the 



Chapter 92, 
section 1. 



Chapter 92, 
section 2, as 
amended by 
chapter 50, 
session laws 
of 1895. 



Chapter 88, 
section 4. 



Chapter 88, 
section 5. 



SCHOOL MONEY. 



Penalty for 
misappropria- 
tion by board. 



District may 
raise addi- 
tional. 



Literary fund. 



Distribution 
of literary 
fund. 



Literary fund 
may be used 
—for what. 



wards' personal property to the school 
district in which the ward lives and 
has his home. 

If the money so assigned and paid 
over to the school board of any dis- 
trict is not expended by them accord- 
ing to law, they shall be fined not 
exceeding twice the sum so unex- 
pended, or not legally expended, for 
the use of the district. 

Any district may raise money for 
the support of schools in additon to 
the sum required by law, which shall 
be assessed, collected, and paid over to 
the district as other school taxes. 

All taxes collected by the state upon 
the deposits, stock, and attending 
accumulations of depositors and stock- 
holders of savings banks, trust com- 
panies, loan and trust companies, loan 
and banking companies, building and 
loan associations, and other similar 
corporations, who do not reside in this 
state, or whose residence is unknown, 
shall be known as the "literary fund." 

The state treasurer shall assign and 
distribute, in November of each year, 
the literary fund among the towns 
and places in proportion to the num- 
ber of scholars not less than five years 
of age who shall, by the last reports 
of the school boards returned to the 
superintendent of public instruction, 
appear to have attended the public 
schools in such towns and places not 
less than two weeks within that year. 

No unincorporated place shall re- 
ceive its portion until a treasurer or 
school agent shall have been chosen 
to receive and appropriate the same 
as required by law. 

The portion of the literary fund so 
received by any town or place shall be 
assigned to the districts as other 
school money, and shall be applied to 



Chapter 88. 
section 7. 



Chapter 88, 
section 8. 



Chapter 88, 
section 9. 



Chapter 88, 
section 10. 



Chapter 8£ 
section 11. 



Chapter 81 
section 12. 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



Penalty for 
misappropri- 
ating. 



Dog tax. 



Equalization 
and supervis- 
ory funds. 
See also page 
56. 



the maintenance of the public schools 
during the current year; one fifth part 
thereof may be applied by the school 
board to the purchase of blackboards, 
dictionaries, maps, charts, and school 
apparatus. 

If any town or incorporated place 
or the agent of any unincorporated 
place shall apply any money so re- 
ceived to any other purpose, the town, 
place, or agent so offending shall re- 
fund to the state treasury double the 
sum so misapplied. 

All moneys arising from the taxation 
and licensing of dogs, remaining in 
the treasury of any town or city on 
the first day of April, annually, which 
is not due to holders of orders given 
for loss of or damages to domestic 
animals by dogs, shall be applied to 
the support of the public schools, and 
shall be assigned to the districts as 
other school money. 

The sum of twenty-five thousand 
dollars ($25,000) shall be appropriated 
annually from the state treasury for 
the purposes of this act. Twenty-five 
per cent, of the entire appropriation 
shall be set apart each year to carry 
into effect section three of this act. 
Any portion of the sum so set apart, 
and not expended as aforesaid, shall 
remain in the state treasury, to be 
uesd in any subsequent year, if needed, 
to carry out the purposes of said sec- 
tion. The remainder shall be paid by 
the state treasurer in December of 
each year to all the towns of the state 
in which the equalized valuation is 
less than $3,000 for each child of the 
average attendance in the public 
schools of such towns during the 
school year next preceding, and such 
other towns as may be added as here- 
inafter provided on the sworn state- 



Chapter 88,. 
section 13. 



Chapter 88, 
section 14. 



Chapter 77, 
session laws 
of 1899, sec- 
tion 6. 



SCHOOL MONEY. 7 

ment of the superintendent of public 
instruction certifying as to what 
amount each town is entitled, in direct 
proportion to said average attendance, 
and in inverse proportion to the equal- 
ized valuation per child, and shall be 
used exclusively for the support of the 
public schools. The governor and 
council may, upon recommendation of 
the superintendent of public instruc- 
tion, add to the class of towns speci- 
fied above in this paragraph such 
other towns as may seem from their 
peculiar conditions to need relief from 
too great a burden of school taxation. 

No town shall receive any benefit chapter 77, 
under this act nor any portion of the session laws 

of 1899 S6P 

literary fund unless its returns have tion If* 
been made to the superintendent of 
public instruction, as required by 
chapter 92, section 13, of the Public 
Statutes, nor unless its schools have 
been maintained at least twenty 
weeks during the school year next 
preceding. 
High school Eight thousand dollars shall be ap- chapter 96, 

tuition rebate. p r0 priated annually from the state session laws 
treasury for the payment of tuition in of 1901, section 

O O C Q TY1 ATI <1 O (J 

high schools and academies, to be paid b ' y chapter 89, 
by the state treasurer in the month of session laws 
December of each year to the treas- of 1905 - 
urers of such towns as are entitled, 
and in such manner as is hereinafter 
provided, upon a sworn certificate of 
the superintendent of public instruc- 
tion of the sums due. 

Towns whose rate of taxation for 
school purposes in any year is $3.50 
or more on $1,000, and whose average 
rate of taxation for all purposes for 
five years next preceding is $16.50 or 
more on $1,000, shall receive a share 
of said appropriation as follows: 

If the tax rate is from $16.50 to 
$17.49, one tenth of the tuition paid. 



SCHOOL LAWS. 

If the tax rate is from $17.50 to 
$18.49, two tenths of the tuition paid. 

If the tax rate is from $18.50 to 
$19.49, three tenths of the tuition paid. 

If the tax rate is from $19.50 to 
$20.49, four tenths of the tuition paid. 

If the tax rate is from $20.50 to 
$21.49, five tenths of the tuition paid. 

If the tax rate is from $21.50 to 
$22.49, six tenths of the tuition paid. 

If the tax rate is from $22.50 to 
$23.49, seven tenths of the tuition paid. 

If the tax rate is from $23.50 to 
$24.49, eight tenths of the tuition paid. 

If the tax rate is from $24.50 to 
$25.49, nine tenths of the tuition paid. 

Over $25.49, the whole of such tui- 
tion. 

If more than $8,000 should be needed 
in any year for the purposes of this 
act, the said $8,000 shall be distributed 
.pro rata to the towns entitled to re- 
ceive the same, in accordance with the 
foregoing classification. 



Definition. 



Legal organi- 
zation. 



Districts may 



II. 

SCHOOL DISTRICTS. 

Bach town shall constitute a single chapter 89, 
district for school purposes; provided, section l. 
however, that districts organized under 
special acts of the legislature may 
retain their present organization. 

School districts that have exercised chapter 89, 
the privileges of a district for a year section 2. 
shall be presumed to be legally organ- 
ized; and all districts legally organ- 
ized shall be corporations, with power 
to sue and be sued, to hold and dis- 
pose of real and personal property 
for the use of the schools therein, and 
to make necessary contracts relating 
thereto. 

School districts may raise money to 



for S ww ney procure land for schoolhouse lots, and 



Chapter 89, 
section 3. 



for what. 



SCHOOL DISTRICTS. 



Districts may 
hire money— 
for what. 



Payment of 

schoolhouse 

debt. 



District taxes. 



for the enlargement of existing lots; 
to build, purchase, rent, repair, or re- 
move schoolhouses and outbuildings; 
to procure insurance; to plant and 
care for shade and ornamental trees 
upon schoolhouse lots; to provide suit- 
able furniture, books, maps, charts, 
apparatus, and conveniences for 
schools; and to pay debts. 

School districts may hire money for 
building schoolhouses, not exceeding 
four fifths of the cost thereof, which 
shall be payable within five years, in 
equal proportions, with the interest. 

The selectmen, upon application of 
the creditor and receipt of copies of 
the vote and note of the district, may, 
in each annual tax, assess upon the 
district one fifth of such debt and the 
interest, and shall cause the same to 
be collected and paid to the town 
treasurer, and shall give an order 
upon the treasurer to the creditor for 
the amounts collected. 

In the assessment of school-district 
taxes, every person shall be taxed in 
the district in which he lives for his 
poll and his personal estate subject to 
taxation in town. Real estate shall 
be taxed in the district in which it is 
situated. 

The selectmen may make a new in- 
voice of all the property in the dis- 
trict when necessary for the just 
assessment of such taxes. 

If such taxes are assessed after the 
first day of July in any year upon the 
property of non-residents, the col- 
lector shall send to the owners of said 
property, or to their agents, if known, 
a bill of their taxes within two 
months after the delivery of the list 
to him, and shall, at the expiration of 
four months after such delivery, ad- 
vertise and sell the property on which 



Chapter 89, 
section 4. 



Chapter 89, 
section 5. 



Chapter 89. 
section 6. 



Chapter 89, 
section 7. 



Chapter 89, 
section 8. 



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SCHOOL LAWS. 



District high 
school. 



Joint schools 
of two or more 
districts. 



Contract with 
academj 7 or 
other literary 
institution. 



the taxes have not been paid in the 
same manner as if such taxes had been 
assessed in April preceding. 

Any school district may, by vote or 
by-law, establish and maintain a high 
school in which the higher" English 
branches of education and the Latin, 
Greek, and modern languages may be 
taught. 

Two or more adjoining districts in 
tbe same or different towns may make 
contracts with each other for estab- 
lishing and maintaining jointly a high 
or other public school for the benefit 
of their scholars, and may raise and 
appropriate money to carry the con- 
tracts into effect; and their school 
boards, acting jointly or otherwise, 
shall have such authority and perform 
such duties in relation to schools so 
maintained as may be provided for in 
the contracts. 

Any school district may contract 
with an academy, seminary, or other 
literary institution located within its 
limits or in its immediate vicinity, for 
furnishing instruction to its scholars; 
and the school money may be used to 
carry the contract into effect. 

[Contracts made with corporations 
outside the state are not considered 
valid, except in the cases specified in 
the section below.] 

Any school district may make con- 
tracts with any academies or high 
schools or other literary institutions 
located in the state for furnishing in- 
struction to its scholars; and such 
school district may raise and appro- 
priate money to carry into effect any 
contracts in relation thereto. Then 
every such academy or high school or 
literary institution shall be deemed 
a high school maintained by such dis- 
trict, if approved by the superintend- 



Chapter 8! 
section 9. 



Chapter 89, 
section 10. 



Chapter 89, 
section 11. 



Chapter 96. 
session laws 
of 1901, section 
6, as amended 
by chapter 90, 
session laws 
of 1905. 



SCHOOL DISTRICTS. 



11 



Admission of 
scholars from 
other dis- 
tricts. 



Districts situ- 
ate in two or 
more towns. 



Dissolution of 
special dis- 
trict. 



ent of public instruction in accordance 
with section 4 of this act. 

The school districts in the town of 
Walpole, Mason, Rollinsford and Con- 
way may make contracts with Bellows 
Falls, Vt, Townsend, Mass., Berwick 
Academy, Me. and Fryeburg Academy, 
Me., respectively, for furnishing in- 
struction to their pupils of high school 
grade, and may raise and appropriate 
money to carry such contracts into 
effect. 

Each district may determine upon 
what terms scholars from other dis- 
tricts or towns may be admitted into 
its schools. If the district neglects to 
make such determination, the school 
board may do it. 

Every district situate in two or more 
towns shall be entitled to its just pro- 
portion of school taxes, income of 
school funds, literary fund, and dog 
tax in each town, according to the val- 
uation of polls and property taxable 
therein. 

Any school district organized under 
a special act of the legislature may, 
by a majority vote of the qualified 
voters present and voting at a legal 
meeting, dissolve its corporate exist- 
ence and unite with the town district. 
In such case the town district so 
formed shall forthwith take posses- 
sion of the schoolhouses, lands, appa- 
ratus, and other property owned and 
used for school purposes by the dis- 
trict so dissolved which the district 
migbt lawfully sell or convey. 

The property so taken, and also like 
property of the district to which the 
special district is united, shall be ap- 
praised by the selectmen of the town, 
and at the next annual assessment a 
tax shall be levied upon the whole 
town district equal to the amount of 



Chapter 122, 
laws of 1907. 



Chapter 89, 
section 12. 



Chapter 89, 
section 13. 



Chapter 89, 
section 14. 



Chapter 89 f _ 
section 15. 



Chapter 89,, 
section 16. 



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SCHOOL LAWS. 



the whole appraisal; and there shall 
be remitted to the taxpayers of each 
district the appraised value of its 
property. 

If a district so dissolved is formed 
of parts of two or more towns, an 
equitable apportionment of its assets 
and liabilities between such parts 
shall be made by the selectmen of the 
towns in which they are situate, act- 
ing as a joint board, within sixty days 
after the dissolution. 

If such joint board fail to make an 
apportionment within the time limited 
therefor, any taxpayer within the dis- 
trict may apply by petition to a judge 
of the supreme court for the appoint- 
ment of a referee to make the appor- 
tionment. 

The judge shall appoint a time and 
place of hearing upon the petition, and 
order notice thereof to be given to all 
parties interested, and after hearing 
them he shall appoint a referee. 

The notice shall be served by post- 
ing copies of the petition and order 
thereon in at least two public places 
in each of said parts, and by giving 
to the clerk of the dissolved district, 
and the clerk of each town district in 
which any part thereof is located, like 
copies ten days at least before the day 
of hearing. 

The referee shall cause notice of his 
hearing to be given to all parties in- 
terested, in the same manner as is pro- 
vided in the preceding section. He 
shall hear the parties, make his report 
in writing, and file a copy thereof 
with the clerk of the dissolved dis- 
trict and the clerk of each town in- 
terested; and the report, so made and 
filed, shall be final. 

Upon receiving a copy of the appor- 
tionment, the selectmen shall assess 



Chapter 89, 
section 17. 



Chapter 89, 
section 18. 



Chapter 89, 
section 19. 



Chapter 89, 
section 20. 



Chapter 89, 
section 21. 



Chapter 89, 
section 22. 



SCHOOL DISTRICTS. 



13: 



upon that part of the district within 
their town the amount for which it is 
charged, and cause the same to be 
collected and paid to the town district 
in which the creditor part of the dis- 
solved district is situated. 

The town district shall take the 
property and assets of that part of the 
dissolved district which is situate in 
such town district, and the selectmen 
of the town shall assess and remit 
taxes with reference to the property 
so taken, and like property of the 
town district, the same as in other 
cases. 

The corporate powers of a district 
shall continue for the purpose of set- 
tling up its affairs and of holding, 
managing, and enjoying any property 
held by it in trust, notwithstanding 
its dissolution, but the school board 
of the district of which it forms a 
part shall be its agents to expend the 
income of any such trust property 
that is devoted to the support of 
schools. 

The school board shall first give to 
such district or districts such term or 
character of schooling as would be 
just and reasonable if no such fund 
were in existence, and only use the 
income to lengthen the school or 
schools, or to carry out the purposes 
of the trust under which the funds are 
held. 

Any justice of the peace may, upon 
application of three or more voters, 
resident within the limits of the dis- 
solved district, call a meeting thereof 
in the same manner as other school- 
district meetings are called, at which 
a moderator, clerk, and agents may 
be chosen, and any other business 
transacted for the purposes mentioned 
in section 24 of this chapter. 



Chapter 89 r 
section 23. 



Chapter 89,. 
section 24. 



Chapter 89,. 
section 25. 



Chapter 89 r 
section 26. 



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SCHOOL LAWS. 



The records of dissolved school dis- 
tricts whose corporate existence is 
not continued for/ any purpose shall 
be returned by the clerks of such dis- 
tricts to the town clerk's office for 
preservation with the public records 
of the town. 
Maintenance Whenever any school district organ- 

schools in dis- izecl under a special act of the legisla- 
solved special ture shall vote to abolish such district 
■districts. and to unite with the town district, 

if said town district shall vote to re- 
ceive said special district, if said spe- 
cial district has for the five years next 
preceding such vote maintained a high 
school, it shall be incumbent on the 
town district with which it unites to 
thereafter keep and maintain within 
the limits of said special distrct a 
high school for at least thirty-four 
weeks in each year, and of equal grade 
to that which had been previously 
maintained therein by such special 
district, said high school to be open 
to all scholars in the town district, of 
suitable age and qualifications. 

It shall be the duty of said town dis- 
trict to raise and appropriate each 
year thereafter sufficient money in 
addition to the school money which 
the town in which it is situated may 
raise, to properly maintain such high 
school, or schools, as may be estab- 
lished under the preceding section. 

Any high school hereby established 
may be discontinued or the location 
thereof changed, by the supreme 
court, on petition of the school board 
of the town district in which it is 
located, after such notice as the court 
may order, if it shall appear that the 
educational interests of the town dis- 
trict require such discontinuance or 
change. 



Chapter 89, 
section 27. 



Chapter 64, 
session laws 
of 1891, sec- 
tion 1. 



Chapter 64, 
session laws 
of 1891, sec- 
tion 2. 



Chapter 64, 
session laws 
of 1891, sec- 
tion 3. 



SCHOOL DISTRICTS. 



15 



Annexation of 
territory situ- 
ate in one dis- 
trict to an- 
other district 
for school 
purposes. 



Any person interested in severing 
part of any town therefrom and an- 
nexing it to another town, or school 
district therein, for school purposes, 
may apply therefor by petition to the 
selectmen of the town from which it 
is proposed to sever such territory, 
and to the selectmen of the town to 
which it is proposed to annex the 
same. 

It shall be the duty of said select- 
men, upon notice to such petitioners 
and to the school boards of the respec- 
tive towns and school districts inter- 
ested in the proposed transfer, to hear 
the parties, and determine whether 
the reasonable accommodation of such 
petitioners or others requires such 
transfer, and to make return of their 
findings to the clerks of their respec- 
tive towns in writing within thirty 
days. 

If a majority of each of said boards 
of selectmen report in favor of such 
transfer, they shall sign a certificate 
of that fact, describing such territory, 
and stating that it is annexed to such 
adjoining town, or district therein for 
school purposes, which certificate 
shall be recorded by the town clerk 
of each town. 

Any territory now or hereafter an- 
nexed for school purposes to an ad- 
joining town or school district therein, 
may, upon proceedings such as have 
been prescribed in the foregoing sec- 
tions of this act, be restored to the 
town or district from which it has 
been severed. 

The annexation of territory under 
this act shall have the same force and 
validity as if made by a special act 
of the legislature. 



Chapter 72, 
session laws 
of 1893, sec- 
tion 1. 



Chapter 72, 
session laws 
of 1893, sec- 
tion 2. 



Chapter 72, 
session laws 
of 1893, sec- 
tion 3. 



Chapter 72, 
session laws 
of 1893, sec- 
tion 4. 



Chapter 72, 
session laws 
of 1893, sec- 
tion 5. 



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SCHOOL LAWS. 



The selectmen and collector of any 
town to which part of any other town 
is now or may hereafter be annexed 
for school purposes shall have the 
same powers and duties in respect to 
such annexed territory, of furnishing 
blank inventories and of assessing and 
collecting taxes for school purposes, 
and the inhabitants and owners 
thereof shall for such purposes be 
subject to the same liabilities, as if 
such territory were in the town to 
which it is or may be annexed. 

Section 6' jof chapter 72 of the Ses- 
sion Laws of 1893 shall not apply to 
special districts, but only to town dis- 
tricts, and all special taxes voted by 
said districts shall be assessed and col- 
lected in the same manner as they 
were assessed and collected prior to 
the enactment of said chapter 72. 

The selectmen of any town, and the 
school board of any high school or 
other special district in the same town, 
may, upon petition of persons inter- 
ested, after notice to the school board 
of the town school district of such 
town, and after hearing the parties, 
unite parts of either district to the 
other, a majority of the board of se- 
lectmen and a majority of the school 
board of such special district, and a 
majority of the school board of the 
town school district concurring therein, 
and their decision in writing being 
recorded on the town records. 



Chapter 72, 
session laws 
of 1893, sec- 
tion 6. 



Chapter 72, 
session laws 
of 1893, sec- 
tion 6, as lim- 
ited by chap- 
ter 26, session 
laws of 1897. 



Chapter 72, 
session laws 
of 1893, sec- 
tion 7, as 
amended by 
chapter 75, 
session laws 
of 1895. 



III. 



MEETINGS 



AXD OFFICERS 
DISTRICTS. 



OF SCHOOL 



Timeofannual A meeting of every school district Chapters, 
meeting. s k all be holden annually between the section l. 

first day of March and the twentieth 
day of April, inclusive, for the choice 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



17 



Special meet- 
ing. 



Place of meet- 
ing. 



Warrant for 
meeting. 



of district officers and the transaction 
of other district business. 

A special meeting of a school dis- 
trict shall be holden whenever, in the 
opinion of the school board, there is 
occasion therefor, or whenever ten or 
more voters, or one sixth of the voters 
of the district, shall have made writ- 
ten application to the school board 
therefor, setting forth the subject- 
matter upon which action is desired. 

No village district or precinct, 
school district, highway district, fire 
district or other like subdivison of a 
town, shall raise or appropriate money 
at any special meeting of the inhabi- 
tants thereof, except by vote by ballot, 
nor unless the ballots cast at such 
meeting shall be equal in number to 
at . least one half of the number of le- 
gal voters of such district at the reg- 
ular meeting next preceding such spe- 
cial meeting; and if a check list was 
used at the last preceding regular 
meeting, the same shall be used to 
ascertain the number of legal voters 
in said district; and such check list, 
corrected according to law, may be 
used at such special meeting upon re- 
quest of ten legal voters of the district. 

School-district meetings may be held 
at the usual place where town meet- 
ings of the town are held, or at such 
other suitable place as in the opinion 
of the officers calling the meeting will 
best accommodate the voters. 

They shall be warned by the school 
board, or, in cases authorized by law, 
by a justice of the peace, by warrant 
addressed to the inhabitants of the 
district qualified to vote in district 
affairs, stating the time and place of 
the meeting and the subject-matter of 
the business to be acted upon. 



Chapter 90, 
section 2. 



Chapter 121, 
laws of 1907. 



Chapter 90, 
section 3. 



Chapter 90. 
section*4. 



18 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



Qualification 
for voting. 



Checklist at 
school meet- 
ings. 



The officers issuing a warrant for a 
district meeting shall insert therein 
any subject-matter for which applica- 
tion has been made to them in writing 
by ten or more voters, or by one sixth 
of the voters of the district. 

The school board or justice issuing 
a warrant shall cause an attested copy 
of it to be posted at the place of meet- 
ing, and a like copy at one other pub- 
lic place in the district, fourteen days 
before the day of meeting. 

If the school board does not cause a 
warrant for the annual meeting to be 
posted on or before the second Tues- 
day of March, in any year, or for a 
special meeting within ten days after 
application therefor is made to them, 
a justice of the peace, upon applica- 
tion of ten or more voters, or of one 
sixth of the voters of the district, may 
issue such warrant and cause it to be 
posted. 

The warrant, with a certificate 
thereon, verified by oath, stating the 
time and places when and where 
copies of it were posted, shall be given 
to the clerk of the district at or before 
the time of the meeting, and shall be 
recorded by him in the records of the 
district. 

Any person, whether male or female, 
but in all other respects except sex 
qualified to vote in town affairs, may 
vote at school-district meetings in the 
district in which such person has re- 
sided and had home three months 
next preceding the meeting. 

Upon petition of ten legal voters of 
any district, presented in January, or 
if the district at its annual meeting 
shall have voted that a checklist be 
used at future meetings, the school 
board shall make, post, and correct a 
list of the legal voters in the district, 



Chapter 90, 
section 5. 



Chapter 90, 
section 6. 



Chapter 90, 
section 7. 



Chapter 90, 
section 8. 



Chapter 90, 
section 9. 



Chapter 90, 
section 10. 



SCHOOL DISTRICTS. 



19 



Penalty for il- 
legal voting. 



Officers. 



as supervisors are required to do in 
regard to the list of voters in their 
towns; and such list shall be used and 
checked, at the election of officers and 
otherwise, at the annual meeting of 
the district, as in case of town meet- 
ings. 

[Section 10 was amended by chapter 
97 of Session Laws of 1895, as follows: 

That section 10 of chapter 90 of the 
Public Statutes shall not be applicable 
to any special school district in this 
state, unless a petition for a check- 
list shall be signed by five per cent, of 
the legal voters of the district.] 

If any person under the age of 
twenty-one years, or any alien not 
naturalized, or any person who has 
not resided and had his home in the 
district for three months and in the 
town for six months preceding, shall 
vote in any district meeting, or if any 
person shall give in more than one 
vote for any officer voted for at the 
meeting, or if any person, being under 
examination before the school board 
as to his qualifications as a voter, shall 
give any false name or answer, he 
shall be fined not exceeding thirty dol- 
lars, or be imprisoned not exceeding 
three months. 

The officers of every school district 
for which the law does not otherwise 
provide shall be a moderator, a clerk, 
a school board of three persons, a 
treasurer, and one or more auditors, 
and such other officers and agents as 
the voters may judge necessary for 
managing the district affairs. 

While any district maintains a high 
school or unites with another district 
in maintaining one, it may have a 
school board consisting of three, six, 
or nine members, as it shall determine 
by vote or by-law. Whenever it ceases 



Chapter 97, , 
session laws 
of 1895. 



Chapter 90, 
section 11. 



Chapter 90, 
section 12. 



Chapter 90, 
section 13. 



20 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



Eligibility to 
office. 



Manner of 
election. 



Term of offi- 
cers. 



Moderator. 



Clerk. 



to maintain or to unite in maintain- 
ing a high school, it shall thereafter- 
wards elect only one member to the 
school board each year to fill vacan- 
cies occurring from expiration of term 
of service, so that the board will de- 
crease in numbers, year by year, until 
it shall be composed of only three 
members. 

No person shall be eligible to any 
school-district office unless he is a 
voter in the district. 

The moderator shall be chosen by 
ballot, by a plurality vote; the clerk, 
school board, and treasurer shall be 
chosen by ballot, by a majority vote. 
The moderator, clerk, and school 
board shall be sworn. 

One third of the members of the 
school board shall be chosen each year 
to hold office for three years, and until 
their successors are chosen and quali- 
fied, and vacancies in the board shall 
be filled so as to preserve such suc- 
cession in office. All other officers 
shall be chosen annually, and shall 
hold office for one year, and until their 
successors are chosen and qualified. 

The moderator shall have the like 
power and duty as a moderator of a 
town meeting to conduct the business 
and to preserve order, and may admin- 
ister oaths to district officers and in 
the district business. In case of a va- 
cancy or absence, a moderator pro 
tempore may be chosen. 

The clerk shall keep a true record of 
all the doings of each meeting; shall 
deliver to the selectmen of the town 
an attested copy of every vote to raise 
money within ten days after the meet- 
ing; shall make an attested copy of 
any record of the district for any per- 
son upon request and tender of legal 
fees therefor; shall act as moderator 



Chapter 90, 
section 14. 



Chapter 90, 
section 15, 
amended by 
chapter 69, 
session laws 
of 1897. 



Chapter 90, 
section 16. 



Chapter 90, 
section 17. 



Chapter 90, 
section 18. 



SCHOOL DISTRICTS. 



21 



of any meeting until a moderator pro 
tempore shall be chosen, if the mod- 
erator is absent or the office has be- 
come vacant; and shall have the same 
power to administer oaths which the 
moderator has. If the clerk is absent 
at any meeting, a clerk pro tempore 
shall be chosen. 

The clerk of every school district 
shall, forthwith, after the election 
from time to time of members of the 
school board, report in writing their 
names and post-office addresses to the 
town clerk of the town; and if he fails 
to do so, he shall be fined twenty dol- 
lars, one half for the use of the com- 
plainant and the other half for the use 
of the town. 

Treasurer. The treasurer shall, before entering 

upon the duties of his office, give a 
bond with sufficient sureties to the 
district, to the acceptance of the 
school board, for the faithful perform- 
ance of his official duties. 

The treasurer shall have the custody 
of all moneys belonging to the district, 
and shall pay out the same only upon 
orders of the school board. He shall 
keep a fair and correct account of all 
sums received into and paid from the 
district treasury. At the close of each 
fiscal year he shall make a report to 
the district, giving a particular ac- 
count of all receipts and payments 
during the year. He shall furnish to 
the school board statements from his 
books, and submit his books and 
vouchers to them and to the district 
auditors for eaxmination, whenever so 
requested. 

Auditors. The auditors shall carefully exam- 

ine the accounts of the treasurer and 
school board at the close of each fiscal 
year, and at other times whenever 
necessary, and report to the district 



Chapter 90, 
section 19. 



Chapter 90, 
section 20. 



Chapter 90, 
section 21. 



Chapter 90, 
section 22. 



22 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



FilliDg of va- 
cancies. 



District may 
require elec- 
tion or ap- 
pointment of 
superintend- 
ent. 



Evening 
schools. 



whether the same are correctly cast 
and well vouched. 

The school board shall fill vacancies 
occurring on the board, and in other 
district offices except that of moder- 
ator, until the next annual meeting of 
the district. In case of vacancy of the 
entire membership of the board, or the 
remaining members are unable to 
agree upon an appointment, the select- 
men, upon application of one or more 
voters in the district shall fill the va- 
cancies so existing until the next an- 
nual meeting of the district. 

A school district may require the 
school board to elect or appoint a su- 
perintendent of schools, who shall hold 
office for such term, be vested with 
such of the powers and charged with 
such of the duties of the school board, 
and be entitled to such compensation 
as it may provide; and such district 
may raise and appropriate money to 
pay the compensation. 

Upon petition of five per cent, of the 
legal voters of any city or town hav- 
ing more than five thousand inhab- 
itants, according to the latest United 
States census, said city or town shall 
establish and maintain, in addition to 
the schools required by the law to be 
maintained therein, evening schools 
for the instruction of persons over 
fourteen years of age in such branches 
of learning and art as the school board 
shall deem expedient. 

The school board of such cities and 
towns shall have the same superin- 
tendence over such evening schools as 
they have over other schools, and may 
determine the term or terms of time 
in each year and the hours of the 
evening during which such schools 
shall be kept, and may make such reg- 



Chapter 90, 
section 23. 



Chapter 90, 
section 24, 
amended by 
chapter 48, 
session laws 
of 1895. 



ChapterJ112, 
session laws 
of 1901, sec- 
tion 1. 



Chapter 112, 
session laws 
of 1901, sec- 
tion 2. 



SCHOOLHOUSES AXD GROUNDS. 2 

illations as to attendance at such 
schools as they may deem expedient. 

Nothing contained in this act shall chapter 112, 
exempt any person from the require- session laws 
ments of chapter 93 of the Public tionS!' SGC " 
Statutes. 

IV. 



Location. 



Power of 
building com- 
mittee. 



Grievance on 
account of 
location. 



School board 
may locate — 
when. 



Appeal. 



SCHOOLHOUSES AND GKOUNDS. 

The district may decide upon the 
location of its schoolhouses, by vote 
or by a committee appointed for the 
purpose. 

No committee shall have power to 
bind the district beyond the amount 
of money voted by it, and the district 
shall not be bound by any act, as a 
ratification of the doings of such com- 
mittee, beyond their authority, unless 
by express vote of the district. 

If ten or more voters of a district 
are aggrieved by the location of a 
schoolhouse by the district or its com- 
mittee, they may apply by petition to 
the school board, who shall hear the 
parties interested and determine the 
location. 

If the district does not agree upon a 
location for a schoolhouse or upon a 
committee to locate the same, or if the 
same is no t located by such committee 
within thirty days after its appoint- 
ment, the school board, upon petition 
of ten or more voters, shall determine 
the location. 

If ten or more voters of a school 
district are aggrieved by the location 
of a schoolhouse by the district or 
its committee, or by the school board, 
they may apply by petition to the 
county commissioners within ten days 
after the making of the location, who 
shall hear the parties interested and 
determine the location. 



Chapter 91, 
section 1. 



Chapter 91, 
section 2. 



Chapter 91, 
section 3. 



Chapter 91, 
section 4. 



Chapter 91, 
section 5. 



24 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



Hearing 
appeal. 



Compensation 
of commis- 
sioners. 



Term of loca- 
tion. 



Enlargement 
of school- 
house lot. 



The chairman of the county commis- 
sioners shall appoint a time and place 
within the district for a hearing upon 
every such petition; and shall give 
notice thereof by causing attested 
copies of the petition and order of no- 
tice to be posted at two or more public 
places within the district and to be 
given in hand to, or left at the abode 
of, the clerk of the district and of one 
of the school board, fourteen days be- 
fore the day of hearing. 

In such cases, vacancies in the board 
of commissioners arising from disqual- 
ification of members or otherwise 
shall be filled in the same manner as 
like vacancies are filled in highway 
cases referred to them. 

The hearing shall be closed within 
sixty days. The commissioners shall 
hear all parties interested who desire 
to be heard, and shall make their de- 
cision in writing and file it with the 
clerk of the district. 

The district shall take no steps to 
carry into effect a former location 
while any subsequent proceedings au- 
thorized by law for a change thereof 
are pending. ^ 

The commissioners shall be paid by 
the district for their services the same 
fees as in highway cases. Districts 
are authorized to raise money for that 
purpose. 

The location of schoolhouses, how- 
ever made, shall be conclusive for the 
term of five years, unless an appeal 
therefrom shall be prosecuted as pro- 
vided in this chapter. 

The school board or county commis- 
sioners may enlarge any existing 
schoolhouse lot so that it shall contain 
not exceeding one acre, upon such pe- 
tition to them and proceedings thereon 
as are required to authorize them to 



Chapter 91, 
section 6. 



Chapter 91, 
section 7. 



Chapter 91, 
section 8. 



Chapter 91, 
section 9. 



Chapter 91, 
section 10. 



Chapter 91, 
section 11. 



Chapter 91, 
section 12. 



SCHOOLHOUSES AND GROUNDS. 



25 



Appeal from 
appraisal. 



determine the location for a school- 
house. 
Appraisal for if any school district shall neglect 
lana damages. Qr refuse to procure the lot of land 
selected for the location of a school- 
house or for the enlargement of an 
existing schoolhouse lot, as provided 
in this chapter, or if the owner of the 
land shall refuse to sell the same to 
the district for a reasonable price, the 
selectmen, upon petition to them by 
the school board or by three or more 
voters of the district, shall appraise 
the damages occasioned to the land- 
owner by the taking of his land. The 
appraisal shall be made in writing, 
and be filed with the clerk of the dis- 
trict. 

Any landowner aggrieved by such 
appraisal of his damages may appeal 
therefrom to the supreme court by pe- 
tition within sixty days after the ap- 
praisal is filed with the clerk of the 
district; and the procedure and reme- 
dies upon such appeal shall be the 
same as in appeals from the assess- 
ment of damages by selectmen in high- 
way cases, except that service of 
papers shall be made upon the clerk 
of the district and one of the school 
board, instead of the town clerk and 
one of the selectmen, and except as 
provided in the following section. 

Upon payment or tender of the dam- 
ages awarded, the land shall vest in 
the district, and it may take possession 
of it. Such payment or tender may be 
made in accordance with the award 
of the selectmen before an appeal is 
taken, or while an appeal is pending, 
and shall have like effect. In such 
case, if the damages are increased 
upon appeal the landowner shall have 
judgment for the excess; if decreased, 



Possession. 



Chapter 91, 
section 13. 



Chapter 91, 
section 14. 



Chapter 91, 
section 15. 



26 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



Selectmen 
may build, re- 
move, etc. — 
when. 



Schools shall 
be kept— 
where. 



Use of school- 
houses for 
other pur- 
poses. 



Selection and 
purchase of 
lots in cities. 



the district shall have judgment for 
the amount of the decrease. If the 
result of the appeal is to change the 
award of damages in favor of the land- 
owner, he shall recover costs; other- 
wise, he shall pay costs. 

If a district shall refuse or neglect 
to build, repair, remove, or fit up a 
schoolhouse, or shall refuse or neg- 
lect to build a schoolhouse upon or to 
remove it to the lot designated as 
aforesaid, the selectmen, upon petition 
of three or more voters of the district, 
after hearing the parties, may assess 
upon the district and collect such 
sums of money as may be necessary, 
and therewith cause such schoolhouse 
to be built, removed, repaired, or fit- 
ted up. 

The schools of a district shall be 
kept in its schoolhouses, if it has suit- 
able houses that will accommodate the 
scholars; if not, the school board shall 
provide suitable accommodations for 
the schools at the expense of the dis- 
trict. 

A school district or the school board 
thereof may grant the use of any 
schoolhouse in the district for a writ- 
ing or singing school, and for religious 
and other meetings, whenever such use 
will not conflict with any regular 
school exercise. The persons so using 
a schoolhouse shall be liable for any 
damages to the same and to the prop- 
erty therein. 

The school board of cities shall have 
sole power to select and purchase land 
for schoolhouse lots. When said board 
has secured, by vote of the city coun- 
cils, an adequate appropriation for the 
purchase of a specified lot at a speci- 
fied price, then said board may make 
the purchase. 



Chapter 91, 
section 16. 



Chapter 91, 
section 17. 



Chapter 91, 
section 18. 



Chapter 65, 
session laws 
of 1897, sec- 
tion 1. 



SCHOOLHOUSES AND GROUNDS. 



27 



Building, etc., 
in cities. 



Shade 
etc. 



trees, 



Doors to open 
outwards. 



No schoolhouse shall be erected, 
altered, remodeled, or changed in any 
city school district, unless the plans 
thereof have been previously submit- 
ted to the school board of that dis- 
trict and received its approval, and all 
new schoolhouses shall be constructed 
under the direction of a joint special 
committee, chosen in equal numbers 
by the city councils and the school 
board. 

Upon the completion of a new 
schoolhouse, the city councils shall, 
by vote, transfer it to the care and 
control of the school board. When- 
ever a schoolhouse shall no longer be 
needed for public school purposes, the 
school board shall re-transfer its care 
and control to the city. 

The provisions of the three preced- 
ing sections shall not apply to the 
Union School District of Concord, or 
to the Union School District in the 
city of Keene. 

Whenever any party, at a proper 
time of the year, shall present to the 
selectmen of any town or ward, well- 
grown nursery trees of the nut, shade, 
or ornamental varieties, such select- 
men may set out said trees in the high- 
ways, cemeteries, commons, school- 
house yards, and other public places, 
as indicated by the donor of said trees, 
and protect the same at the expense 
of the town. 

Nothing in this act shall be con- 
strued to compel any party to have 
trees set in the highway on the side 
next his land without his consent. 

The outer doors, and doors or pas- 
sages leading outwards, of churches, 
schoolhouses, public halls and build- 
ings to be used for public purposes, 
except depots, hereafter constructed, 
shall open outwards. 



Chapter 65, 
session laws 
of 1897, sec- 
tion 2. 



Chapter 65, 
session laws 
of 1897, sec- 
tion 3. 



Chapter 65, 
session laws 
of 1897, sec- 
tion 4. 



Chapter 44, 
session laws 
of 1897, sec- 
tion 1. 



Chapter 44, 
session laws 
of 1897, sec- 
tion 2. 



Chapter 116, 
section 7. 



28 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



Barbed wire 
fences near 
schoolhouses. 



Nuisance in 
vicinity of 
schoolhouse. 



Saloons and 
schoolhouses. 



If any owner or occupant of land ad- 
joining land occupied by a school dis- 
trict for school purposes erects, keeps 
or maintains any barbed wire fence 
to separate or divide such lands, he 
shall be fined not exceeding twenty- 
five dollars. 

The selectmen or school board shall 
prosecute at the expense of the town 
or district, as the case may be, any 
violations of the preceding section. 

If any person shall use or occupy a 
building or place near a dwelling- 
house or schoolhouse, or in the com- 
pact part of a town, for a slaughter- 
house, a place of deposit of green 
pelts or skins, or for trying tallow, 
currying leather, or carrying on any 
other business that is offensive to the 
public, without the written permission 
of the health officers of the town, he 
shall forfeit ten dollars for each month 
such building or place shall be so used 
or occupied, to be recovered for the use 
of the town. 

No license shall be granted for the 
traffic in liquor in any building which 
shall be on the same street or avenue 
within two hundred feet of a building 
occupied exclusively as a church or 
schoolhouse, the measurements to be 
taken in a straight line from the 
center of the nearest entrance to 
the building used for such church 
or school, to the center of the 
nearest entrance to the place in which 
the traffic in liquor is desired to be 
carried on, or in any location where 
the traffic shall be deemed by said 
board of license commissioners detri- 
mental to the public welfare, provided, 
that this restriction shall not apply to 
hotels or drug stores used as such on 
the first day of January, 1903. 



Chapter 143, 
section 31. 



Chapter 143, 
section 32. 



Chapter 108, 
section 15. 



Chapter 95, 
session laws 
of 1903, sec- 
tion 9. 



SCHOOL BOARDS, TEACHERS, TRUANT OFFICERS. 



29 



V. 



Provision of 
schools. 



Conveyance 
of scholars. 



Hiring of 
teachers. 



Repairs. 



Dismissal of 
teachers. 



Teacher's 
right to hear< 
ing. 



SCHOOL BOARDS, TEACHERS AND TRUANT 
OFFICERS. 

The school board of every district 
shall provide schools at such places 
within the district and at such times 
in each year as will best subserve the 
interests of education, and will give to 
all scholars of the district as nearly 
equal advantages as may be practi- 
cable. They may use a portion of the 
school money, not exceeding twenty- 
five per cent., for the purpose of con- 
veying scholars to and from the 
schools. 

The school board shall select and 
hire suitable and competent teachers 
holding certificates as provided by 
law, shall provide necessary fuel, and 
shall make such occasional repairs of 
the schoolhouses and furniture as may 
be necessary, not exceeding in cost 
five per cent, of the school money. 

[Certificates provided by law and 
those required to be issued by the local 
school board good in the district in 
which they are issued, and those is- 
sued by the superintendent of public 
instruction, good anywhere in the 
state.] 

They may dismiss any teacher found 
by them to be immoral or incompetent 
or who shall not conform to regula- 
tions prescribed; provided, however, 
that no teacher shall be so dismissed 
before the expiration of the period for 
which said teacher was engaged with- 
out having previously been notified of 
the cause of such dismissal, and pro- 
vided further that no teacher shall be 
so dismissed without having previ- 
ously been granted a full and fair 
hearing. 



Chapter 92, 
section 1. 



Chapter 92, 
section 2, 
amended by 
chapter 50, 
session laws 
of 1895. 



Chapter 92, 
section 3, as 
amended by 
chapter 59, 
session laws 
of 1905. 



30 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



Power of 
board to pre- 
scribe regula- 
tions. 



Studies to be 
prescribed. 



Examination 
of teachers.— 
See also be- 
low. 



The district shall be liable in the 
action of contract to any teacher dis- 
missed in violation of the provisions 
of the preceding section to the extent 
of the lull salary for the period for 
which such teacher was engaged. 

The school board may prescribe reg- 
ulations for the attendance upon, and 
for the management, studies, classifi- 
cation, and discipline of the schools; 
and such regulations, when recorded 
by the district clerk, and a copy there- 
of has been given to the teachers and 
read in the schools shall be binding 
upon scholars and teachers. 

They shall prescribe in all mixed 
schols and in all graded schools above 
primary, the studies of physiology and 
hygiene, having special reference to 
the effects of alcoholic stimulants and 
of narcotics upon the human system, 
and shall see that the studies so pre- 
scribed are thoroughly taught in said 
schools and that well approved text- 
books upon these subjects are fur- 
nished to teachers and scholars, and 
that the constitution of the United 
States and of the state of New Hamp- 
shire be read aloud by the scholars at 
least once during the last year of the 
course below the high school, and may 
permit or prescribe the study of alge- 
bra, geometry, surveying, bookkeep- 
ing, philosophy, chemistry, and nat- 
ural history, or any of them, and 
other suitable studies.* School boards 
shall, annually, in the month of June 
or July, and at such other times as 
they deem best, hold an examination 
of candidates for certificates of quali- 
fication to teach in the public schools. 



Chapter 92, 
section 4, as 
changed by 
chapter 59, 
session laws 
of 1905. 



Chapter 92, 
section 5. 



Chapter 92, 
section 6, as 
amended by 
chapter 40, 
session laws 
of 1895, and 
chapter 31, 
session laws 
of 1903. 



* Section 2, chapter 40, laws of 1895. If any 
member of the school board shall neglect or 
refuse to comply with the provisions of the 
first paragraph of section 6, he shall forfeit 
the sum of two hundred dollars. 



SCHOOL BOARDS, TEACHERS, TRUANT OFFICERS. 



31 



Free text- 
books. 



Candidates shall be examined in the 
studies prescribed by law, or by the 
school board in accordance with law. 
Such candidates as pass an examina- 
tion satisfactory to the school board, 
and present satisfactory evidence of 
good moral character and capacity for 
government, shall receive certificates 
of qualification signed by the school 
board, to continue in force not more 
than one year from the date thereof. 
They shall purchase, at the expense 
of the city or town in which the dis- 
trict is situated, text-books and other 
supplies required for use in the pub- 
lic schools; and shall loan the same to 
the pupils of such schools free of 
charge, subject to such regulations for 
their care and custody as the school 
board may prescribe. They shall 
make provision for the sale of such 
books at cost to pupils of the school 
wishing to purchase them for their 
own use. 

[Text-books and supplies cannot le- 
gally be paid for out of school money. 
See chapter 88, sections 3 and 7, pages 
3 and 5 of this volume.] 
They shall They shall purchase at the expense 

purchase and of the city or town in which the dis- 
display u. s. trict is situated, a United States flag 



flag. 



of bunting not less than five feet in 
length with a flagstaff and appliances 
for displaying the same, for every 
schoolhouse in the district in which 
a public school is taught not other- 
wise supplied. They shall prescribe 
rules and regulations for the proper 
custody, care, and display of the 
flag; and whenever not otherwise 
displayed, it shall be placed conspic- 
uously in the principal room of the 
schoolhouse. Any members of a 
school board who shall refuse or neg- 
lect to comply with the provisions of 



Chapter 92, 
section 7, as 
amended by- 
session laws 
of 1895. 



Chapter 92, 
section 8, as 
amended by 
chapter 50, 
session laws 
of 1895 and 
chapter 39, 
session laws 
of 1903. 



32 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



Certain books 
shall not be 
used. 



Patriotic ex- 
ercises. 



Holidays. 



Registers to 
be furnished. 



Teachersshall 
keep regis- 
ters. 



this section shall be fined ten dollars 
for the first offense and twenty dol- 
lars for every subsequent offense. 

Not more than ten dollars shall be 
expended for the flag, flag-staff, and 
appliances for any one schoolhouse, 
and the school board shall have the 
same control over its preservation and 
display that it has over the other dis- 
trict property. 

[The flag, staff and appliances can- 
not be paid for out of school money.] 
Send the bill to the selectmen or city 
council. 

No book shall be introduced into the 
public schools calculated to favor any 
particular religious sect or political 
party. 

In all the public schools of the state 
one session during the week in which 
Memorial Day falls, or a portion there- 
of, shall be devoted to exercises of a 
patriotic nature. 

Thanksgiving Day and Fast Day, 
whenever appointed; Labor Day; the 
twenty-second day of February, the 
thirtieth day of May; the fourth day 
of July, and Christmas Day shall be 
legal holidays, and when either of the 
last four days mentioned occurs on 
Sunday, the following day shall be ob- 
served as a holiday. 

They shall furnish to every teacher 
one of the blank registers provided by 
the superintendent of public instruc- 
tion, and shall visit and examine each 
school in their district at least twice 
in each term, once near the beginning 
and once near the close thereof. 

Every teacher shall make the en- 
tries in the register required by the 
superintendent of public instruction, 
and at the close of the term shall re- 
turn the register to the school board. 
Twenty dollars of the wages of every 



Chapter 92, 
section 9, as 
amended by 
chapter 50, 
session laws 
of 1895. 

Chapter 14, 
session laws 
of 1897. 



Chapter 11, 
session laws 
of 18 9 9, as 
amended by 
Chapter 7, 
sesssion laws 
of 1907. 



Chapter 92, 
section 10. 



Chapter 92, 
section 11. 



SCHOOL BOARDS, TEACHERS, TRUANT OFFICERS. 



33 



Reports to be 
filed with, se- 
lectmen. 



teacher shall be withheld until he has 
made such return. 

School boards shall file with the se- 
lectmen on or before the first day of 
August, in each year, their reports to 
their respective districts, stating the 
number of weeks the public schools 
have been kept in their districts in 
summer and winter, and what portion 
by male and what by female teachers; 
the number of teachers employed dur- 
ing the year, reckoning successive 
teachers employed in the same school 
as one teacher; the number of days' 
attendance of all the pupils of the dis- 
trict, inclusive of days spent by teach- 
ers of the schools of said district in 
attendance upon teachers' institutes 
as provided by law and days spent in 
attendance upon the annual meeting 
of the state teachers' association, and 
the average attendance of pupils dur- 
ing the remainder of the term shall be 
considered as the attendance of the 
pupils during such days; the number 
of scholars who have attended each 
school; the number who have at- 
tended to each study; the number of 
scholars of their districts not less than 
five years of age who have attended 
the public schools in their district not 
less than two weeks during the year; 
and containing such suggestions rela- 
tive to the schools as they may think 
useful. School boards of town districts 
shall also include in their reports a 
statement of the number of children 
of each sex reported by the truant 
officer or agents of the school board; 
the number of each sex between the 
ages of five and sixteen years who 
have not attended school; the number 
of scholars not less than five years of 
age who have attended the district 
schools in the town not less than two 



Chapter 92, 
section 12, as 
amended by 
chapter 50, 
session laws 
of 1895. 



34 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



Reports to be 
made to su- 
perintendent 
of public in- 
struction. 



Penalty for 
refusal or 
neglect. 



Penalty for 
neglect of 
duty. 



Boards to ap- 
point truant 
officers. 



Duties of tru- 
ant officers. 



weeks during the year, and the num- 
ber of persons in each district be- 
tween the ages of fourteen and 
twenty-one years who cannot read and 
write. 

School boards shall on or before the 
fifteenth day of July in each year, 
send to the superintendent of public 
instruction copies of their annual re- 
ports and answers to the questions 
proposed by him, relating to the 
schools in their district; the school 
year shall begin with the fall term. 

Any member of a school board who 
shall neglect or refuse to comply with 
the provisions of the preceding sec- 
tion shall be fined not exceeding fifty 
dollars. 

If any public officer willfully neg- 
lects any duty of his office, and no 
penalty is prescribed by statute for 
such neglect, he shall forfeit a sum 
not exceeding thirty dollars. 

School boards shall appoint truant 
officers for their districts, and fix their 
compensation at a reasonable rate, 
which compensation shall be paid by 
the towns. 

[Truant officers cannot legally be 
paid out of school money.] 

Truant officers shall hold office for 
one year, and until their successors 
shall be appointed, but they may be 
removed by the school board at any 
time for cause. 

Truant officers shall, under the direc- 
tion of the school board, enforce the 
laws and regulations relating to tru- 
ants and children between the ages of 
eight and sixteen years not attending 
school, and without any regular and 
lawful occupation; and the laws relat- 
ing to the attendance at school of chil- 
dren between the ages of eight and 
sixteen years. 



Chapter 92, 
section 13. as 
amended by 
chapter 50, 
session laws 
of 1895, and 
chapter 5, 
session laws 
of 1903. 



Chapter 92, 
section 14. 



Chapter 255, 
section 14. 



Chapter 92, 
section 15, as 
amended by 
chapter 70, 
session laws 
of 1899. 



Chapter 92, 
section 16. 



Chapter 92, 
section 17, as 
amended by 
chapter 70, 
session laws 
of 1899. 



SCHOOL BOARDS, TEACHERS, TRUANT OFFICERS. 



35 



Truant officers shall, if required by 
the school board, enforce the laws pro- 
hibiting the employment of children 
in manufacturing - , mechanical, or mer- 
cantile establishments, who have not 
attended school the prescribed time; 
and for this purpose they may, when 
so authorized and required by vote of 
the school board, visit the manufactur- 
ing, mechanical, and mercantile estab- 
lishments in their respective cities and 
towns, and ascertain whether any chil- 
dren under the age of sixteen are em- 
ployed therein contrary to the provi- 
sions of law, and they shall report any 
cases of such illegal employment to 
the school board; and the truant offi- 
cers, when authorized as aforesaid, 
may demand the names of all children 
under sixteen years of age employed 
in such manufacturing, mechanical, 
and mercantile establishments, and 
may require that the certificates and 
lists of such children provided for by 
law shall be produced for their inspec- 
tion. Truant officers shall inquire 
into the employment, otherwise than 
in such manufacturing, mechanical, 
and mercantile establishments, of 
children under the age of sixteen 
years, during the hours when the pub- 
lic, schools are in session, and may re- 
quire that the certificates of all chil- 
dren under sixteen shall be produced 
for their inspection; and any such offi- 
cer may bring a prosecution against a 
person or corporation employing any 
such child, otherwise than as afore- 
said, during the hours when the pub- 
lic schools are in session, contrary to 
the provisions of law. 

A refusal or failure on the part of 
an employer of children under sixteen 
years of age to produce the certificate 
required by law, when requested by a 



Chapter 92, 
section 18, as 
amended by 
chapter 70, 
session laws 
of 1899. 



36 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



Enumeration 
of children. 



Compensation 
of school 
board. 



School day 
and week. 



Teachers may 
attend insti- 
tutes. 



truant officer, shall be prima facie evi- 
dence of the illegal employment of 
the child whose certificate is not pro- 
duced. 

Truant officers shall have authority 
without a warrant to take and place 
in school any children found employed 
contrary to the laws relating to the 
employment of children or violating 
the laws relating to the compulsory 
attendance at school of children be- 
tween the ages of six and sixteen years. 

Truant officers or agents appointed 
by school boards of cities and towns 
shall annually, in the month of Sep- 
tember, make an enumeration of the 
children of each sex, between the ages 
of five and sixteen years, in their town 
or city, giving such items in regard to 
each child as may be required by the 
school board or the state superintend- 
ent of public instruction, and shall 
make a report to the school board 
thereof within fifteen days after the 
completion. 

Section 14, chapter 43, Public Stat- 
utes, and any other acts inconsistent 
with this act, are hereby repealed. 

The school board, upon satisfying 
the selectmen that they have attended 
to the duties and made the reports by 
law required, shall be paid such rea- 
sonable compensation as the town or 
selectmen may determine. 

In the absence of express contract, 
a session of three hours in the fore- 
noon and three hours in the afternoon 
shall constitute a school day, five such 
days a school week, and four such 
weeks a school month, in the public 
schools. 

Teachers of public schools may at- 
tend teachers' institutes held within 
the state, as provided by law, not ex- 
ceeding three days in any term or 



Chapter 46, 
session laws 
of 1895, as 
amended by 
chapter 91, 
session laws 
of 1905, sec- 
tion l. 



Chapter 46, 
session laws 
of 1895, sec- 
tion 2. 

Chapter 92, 
section 19. 



Chapter 92, 
section 20. 



Chapter 92, 
section 21, as 
amended by 
chapter 29, 
session laws 
of 1903. 



SCHOOL BOARDS, TEACHERS, TRUANT OFFICERS. 



37 



Evening 
schools. 



Boards to 
superintend 
evening 
schools. 



Examination 
and certifica- 
tion of teach- 
ers by super- 
intendent of 
public in- 
struction. 



five days in any year, and the time so 
spent shall be regarded as spent in 
the service of the district. 

Upon petition of five per cent, of the 
legal voters of any city or town hav- 
ing more than five thousand inhab- 
itants, according to the latest United 
States census, said city or town shall 
establish and maintain, in addition to 
the schools required by law to be 
maintained therein, evening schools 
for the instruction of persons over 
fourteen years of age in such branches 
of learning and art as the school board 
shall deem expedient. 

The school board of such cities and 
towns shall have the same superin- 
tendence over such evening schools as 
they have over other schools, and may 
determine the term or terms of time 
in each year and the hours of the 
evening during which such schools 
shall be kept, and may make such reg- 
ulations as to attendance at such 
schools as they may deem expedient. 

Nothing contained in this act shall 
exempt any person from the require- 
ments of chapter 93 of the Public 
Statutes. 

The superintendent of public in- 
struction shall cause to be held, at 
such convenient times and places as 
he may from time to time designate, 
public examinations of candidates for 
the position of teacher in the public 
schools of the state. Such examina- 
tions shall test the professional as well 
as the scholastic abilities of candi- 
dates, and shall be conducted by such 
persons and in such manner as the 
superintendent of public instruction 
may from time to time designate. 
Due notice of the time, place, and 
other conditions of the examinations 
shall be given in such public manner 



Chapter 112, 
session laws 
of 1901, sec- 
tion l. 



Chapter 112, 
session laws 
of 1901, sec- 
tion 2. 



Chapter 112, 
session laws 
of 1901, sec- 
tion 3. 

Chapter 49, 
session laws 
of 1895, sec- 
tion 1. 



38 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



as the superintendent of public in- 
struction may determine. 

A certificate of qualifications shall 
be given to all candidates who pass 
satisfactory examinations in such 
branches as are required by law to be 
taught, and who in other respects ful- 
fill the requirements of the superin- 
tendent; such certificate shall be 
either probationary, or permanent, 
and shall indicate the grade of school 
for which the person named in the 
certificate is qualified to teach. 

A list of approved candidates shall 
be kept in the office of the department 
of public instruction and copies of the 
same, with such information as may 
be desired, shall be sent to school com- 
mittees upon their request. 

The certificates issued under the 
provisions of this act shall be accepted 
by school committees in lieu of the 
personal examination required by sec- 
tion 6 of chapter 92 of the Public Stat- 
utes. 

A sum not exceeding three hundred 
dollars may be annually expended 
from the income of institute fund for 
the necessary and contingent expenses 
of carrying out the provisions of this 
act. 



Chapter 49, 
session laws 
of 1895, sec- 
tion 2. 



Chapter 49, 
session laws 
of 1895, sec- 
tion 3. 



Chapter 49, 
session laws 
of 1895, sec- 
tion 4, as 
amended by- 
chapter 12, 
session laws 
of 1899. 

Chapter 49, 
session laws 
of 1895, sec- 
tion 5. 



VI. 



SCHOLARS. 



None shall at- 
tend without 
consent of 
board. 



Vaccination. 



No person shall attend school, or 
send a scholar to the school, in any dis- 
trict of which he is not an inhabitant, 
without the consent of the district or 
of. the school board. 

No child shall attend any public, 
parochial, or private school unless he 
has been vaccinated or has had the 
smallpox, and this section shall be 
enforced by the board of health. 



Chapter 93, 
section l. 



Chapter 93, 
section 2, as 
amended by- 
chapter 19, 
session laws 
of 1901. 



SCHOLARS. 



39 



Infectious 
diseases. 



Penalty. 



Dismissal for 
misconduct. 



Scholars shall 
attend where 
assigned. 



Penalty. 



District by- 
laws concern- 
ing truants. 



No parent or guardian, person or 
persons having the custody of any 
child, shall permit such child, if in- 
fected with any communicable dis- 
ease, or has been exposed to such, to 
attend any public or private school. 

Any person who knowingly violates 
any provision of this chapter, or any 
regulation established by authority of 
this chapter, shall be punished by a 
fine of ten dollars for each offense. 

Any scholar may be dismissed from 
school by the school board for gross 
misconduct, or for neglect or refusal 
to conform to the reasonable rules of 
the school; and he shall not attend the 
school until restored by the school 
board. 

No scholar who shall have been as- 
signed to a particular school by the 
school board shall attend any other 
school in the district until assigned 
thereto. 

If any scholar, after notice, shall 
attend or visit a school which he has 
no right to attend, or shall interrupt 
or disturb the same, he shall be fined 
for the first offense five dollars, and 
for any subsequent offense ten dollars, 
or be imprisoned not exceeding thirty 
days. 

Districts may make by-laws, not re- 
pugnant to law, concerning habitual 
truants and children between the ages 
of six and sixteen years not attending 
school and not having a regular and 
lawful occupation, and to compel the 
attendance of such children at school, 
and may annex penalties for the 
breach thereof not exceeding ten dol- 
lars for each offense. 

[The department will furnish an ar- 
ticle drawn by the attorney-general for 
insertion in the school warrant upon 
application.] 



Chapter 16, 
session laws 
of 1901, sec- 
tion 7. 



Chapter 16, 
session laws 
of 1901, sec- 
tion 9. 



Chapter 93, 
section 3. 



Chapter 93, 
section 4. 



Chapter 93, 
section 5. 



Chapter 93, 
section 6. 



40 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



Offense 
against by- 
laws. 



Employment 
of children. 

Children un- 
der twelve. 



Children un- 
der sixteen 
may be em- 
ployed— 
when. 



Any offender against such by-laws, 
upon conviction, may be sentenced to 
pay a fine and to be committed to the 
Industrial School until it is paid or he 
is otherwise discharged, or he may be 
sentenced to the Industrial school for 
a term not exceeding one year. 

The court or justice imposing a fine 
upon any such offender may remit it 
upon proof that he is unable to pay 
it, and has no parent, guardian, or 
person chargeable with his support, 
able to pay it, and may discharge him 
from the Industrial School if he has 
been committed there for non-pay- 
ment thereof. 

Any such offender so convicted may 
give bond to the district in the penal 
sum of twenty-five dollars, with suffi- 
cient sureties, approved by the court 
or justice before whom he was con- 
victed, conditioned to attend regularly 
some school kept in the district for 
one term next ensuing, to comply with 
the regulations thereof, and to be 
obedient and respectful to the teacher; 
and his fine may thereupon be remit- 
ted by such court or justice upon pay- 
ment of the costs. 

No child under the age of twelve 
years shall be employed in any manu- 
facturing establishment. No child 
under the age of fourteen years shall 
be employed in any manufacturing 
establishment, nor in any mechanical, 
mercantile, or other employment dur- 
ing the time in which the public 
schools are in session in the district 
in which he resides. 

No child under the age of sixteen 
years shall be employed in any manu- 
facturing establishment, or in any 
mechanical, mercantile, or other em- 
ployment, during the time in which 
the public schools are in session in 



Chapter 93, 
section 7. 



Chapter 93, 
section 8. 



Chapter 93, 
section 9. 



Chapter 93, 
section 10, as 
amended by 
chapter 61, 
session laws 
of 1901. 



Chapter 93, 
section 11, as 
amended by 
chapter 61, 
session laws 
of 1901. 



SCHOLARS. 



41 



Employment 
of minors. 



the district in which he resides, with- 
out first presenting a statement of his 
age from his parent or guardian, 
sworn to before the superintendent of 
schools, or, if there is no superintend- 
ent of schools, before some person 
authorized by the school board of the 
district in which such child is em- 
ployed. 

And no child under the age of six- 
teen years shall be employed as afore- 
said during the time in which the pub- 
lic schools are in session in the dis- 
trict in which he resides without first 
presenting a certificate from the 
superintendent of schools, or, if there 
is no superintendent of schools, some 
person authorized by the school board, 
that such child can read at sight and 
write legibly simple sentences in the 
English language. And any superin- 
tendent of schools or person author- 
ized by the school board who certifies 
falsely as to matters prescribed by 
this section shall be fined not less 
than twenty nor more than fifty dol- 
lars for each offense. 

No minor shall be employed in any Chapter 93, 
manufacturing establishment, or in sec tion 12, as 

, . , ,•-, .x. amended bv 

any mechanical, mercantile, or other chapter 61,* 

employment, who cannot read at sight session laws 
and write legibly simple sentences in ofl901 - 
the English language, while a free 
public evening school is maintained in 
the district in which he resides, unless 
he is a regular attendant at such even- 
ing school or at a day school; provided, 
that upon presentation by such minor 
of a certificate signed by a regular 
practising physician, and satisfactory 
to the superintendent of schools, or, 
where there is no superintendent of 
schools, the school board, showing 
that the physical condition of such 
minor would render such attendance 



42 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



Penalty for il- 
legal employ- 
ment. 



Persons hav- 
ing custody of 
children must 
cause them to 
attend school. 



in addition to daily labor prejudicial 
to his health, said superintendent of 
schools or school board shall issue a 
permit authorizing the employment of 
such minor for such period as said 
superintendent of schools or school 
board may determine. Said superin- 
tendent of schools or school board, or 
teachers acting under authority there- 
of, may excuse any absence from such 
evening school arising from justifiable 
cause. Any parent, guardian, or cus- 
todian who permits to be employed 
any minor under his control in viola- 
tion of the provisions of this section 
shall forfeit not more than twenty dol- 
lars for the use of the evening schools 
of such town or city. 

If any owner, agent, superintendent, 
or overseer of a manufacturing, me- 
chanical, or mercantile establishment 
or any other person shall employ any 
child in violation of the provisions of 
either of the three preceding sections, 
he shall be fined not exceeding fifty 
dollars for each offense, for the use 
of the district. 

Every person having the custody 
and control of a child between the 
ages of eight and fourteen years, or 
of a child under the age of sixteen 
years, who cannot read at sight and 
write legible, simple sentences in the 
English language, residing in a school 
district in which a public school is 
annually taught, shall cause such child 
to attend the public school all the 
time such school is in session, unless 
the child shall be excused by the 
school board of the district because 
his physical or mental condition is 
such as to prevent his attendance at 
school for the period required, or be- 
cause he was instructed in the Eng- 
lish language in a private school ap- 



Chapter 93, 
section 13, as 
amended by 
chapter 61, 
session laws 
of 1901. 



Chapter 93, 
section? 14, as 
amended by 
chapter 61, 
session laws 
of 1901, and 
chapter 13, 
session laws 
of 1903. 



SCHOLARS. 



43 



Superintend- 
ent of public 
instruction to 
have same 
powers as tru- 
ant officers. 



Copies of law 
to be sent to 
offenders. 



Penalty for 

interrupting 

school. 



School board 
must prose- 
cute 
offenders. 



proved by the school board for a num- 
ber of weeks equal to that in which 
the public school was in session in the 
common English branches, or, having 
acquired those branches, in other more 
advanced studies. Any person who 
does not comply with the require- 
ments of this section shall be fined ten 
dollars for the first offense and twenty 
dollars for every subsequent offense, 
for the use of the district. 

The state superintendent of public 
insruction shall have authority to 
enforce the laws relating to attend- 
ance at school and the employment of 
minors, and, for this purpose, he and 
any deputy appointed by him shall be 
vested with the powers given by law 
to truant officers when authorized by 
school boards to enforce the laws re- 
lating to attendance at school and the 
employment of children. And the ex- 
penses necessarily incurred by the 
state superintendent in such enforce- 
ment shall be paid as audited and 
allowed by the governor and council. 

The school board of every district 
shall cause a copy of the two preced- 
ing sections to be sent to every person 
who they have reason to believe does 
not comply with the requirements of 
section 14 of this chapter. 

Any person, not a scholar, who shall 
wilfully interrupt or disturb any school 
shall be punished by a fine not ex- 
ceeding fifty dollars, or by imprison- 
ment not exceeding thirty days. 

It shall be the duty of the school 
board to prosecute offenders for vio- 
lations of the provisions of this chap- 
ter. If they neglect to perform this 
duty they shall forfeit twenty dollars 
for each neglect, for the use of the 
district, to be recovered in the name 
of the district by the selectmen of the 



Chapter 93, 
section 15, as 
amended by 
chapter 61, 
session laws 
of 1901. 



Chapter 93, 
section 16. 



Chapter 93, 
section 17. 



Chapter 93, 
section 18. 



44 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



Limitation of 
prosecution. 



Private 
schools must 
be approved. 



town. All necessary expenses in- 
curred in such proceedings shall be 
paid by the district. 

No prosecution under this chapter 
shall be sustained unless begun 
within one year after the offense is 
committed. 

No certificate as provided in the 
foregoing sections shall be issued for 
attendance at any private school, 
unless such school shall have pre- 
viously been approved by the school 
board of the district in which it is 
situated as furnishing instruction in 
the English language in all the studies 
required by law equal to that given 
in the public schools of said district, 
and unless the record of attendance 
shall be kept in the form required of 
the public schools, and be open to the 
inspection of the school board of the 
district at all times. 



Chapter 93, 
section 19. 



Chapter 93, 
section 20, en- 
acted by chap- 
ter 62, session 
laws of 1895. 



VII. 



SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. 

Appointment. The governor, with advice of coun- 
cil, shall appoint a superintendent of 
public instruction, who shall hold 
office for the term of two years, and 
shall have general supervision and 
control of the educational interests of 
the state. v 

Duties. The superintendent of public in- 

struction shall prescribe the form of 
register to be kept in the schools, and 
the form of blanks and inquries for 
the returns to be made by the school 
boards, and shall seasonably send the 
same to the clerks of the several 
towns and cities for the use of the 
school boards therein; he shall receive, 
preserve, or distribute all state docu- 
ments in regard to public schools or 
education, and shall receive and ar- 



Chapter 94, 
section 1. 



Chapter 94, 
section 2, as 
amended by 
chapter 35, 
session laws 
of 1895, and 
chapter 33, 
session laws 
of 1903. 



SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. 



45 



range in his office reports and returns 
of school boards; he shall investigate 
the condition and efficiency of the sys- 
tem of popular education in the state, 
especially in relation to the amount 
and character of the instruction given 
to the study of physiology and 
hygiene, having special reference to 
the effects of alcoholic stimulants and 
of narcotics upon the human system, 
and shall recommend to school boards 
what he considers the best text-books 
upon those subjects and suggest to 
them the best mode of teaching them, 
and shall pursue such a course for the 
purpose of awakening and guiding 
public sentiment in relation thereto as 
may seem to him best, and he shall 
biennially make a report, containing 
a concise abstract of the returns of 
the school boards, a detailed report of 
his own doings, a statement of the 
condition and progress of popular edu- 
cation in the state, and such sugges- 
tions and recommendations in regard 
to improving the same as his informa- 
tion and judgment may dictate. He 
shall have authority at the close of 
each biennial session of the legisla- 
ture to compile and issue at the ex- 
pense of the state an edition of the 
school laws with the session amend- 
ments, not exceeding two thousand 
copies. 

He shall visit and lecture upon edu- 
cational subjects in as many towns 
and cities of the state during the term 
of his office as the time occupied by 
his other official duties will permit. 

He shall organize, superintend, and 
hold at least one teachers' institute 
each year in each county of the state, 
and appoint the time and place, and 
make suitable arrangements therefor. 



Chapter 94, 
section 3. 



Chapter 94, 
section 4. 



46 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



Institute fund. 



Expenses of 
institute. 



Copy of re- 
ports to be 
sent to school 
boards. 

Clerical ex- 
penses. 



Traveling ex- 
penses. 



In case he is unable for any cause to 
conduct in person any institute, or to 
make the necessary arrangements 
therefor, he shall appoint the prin- 
cipal of the state normal school, or 
some other suitable person, for that 
purpose. 

The state treasurer is authorized 
and instructed to invest, as a perma- 
nent institute fund, the proceeds of 
the sale of the state lands effected 
under the authority of a joint resolu- 
tion approved June 28, 1867, and the 
annual income thereof is set apart for 
the support of teachers' institutes. 

The superintendent of public in- 
struction may draw upon the state 
treasurer each year for such part of 
said income as may be required to 
defray the necessary expenses of the 
institutes, and for procuring suitable 
instruction and lectures for the same. 

His account for the expenses of the 
institutes shall be audited each year 
by the governor and council, and he 
shall incorporate in his annual report 
a report of the institutes and of the 
expenses of the same. 

He shall forward to the chairman of 
every school board in the state a copy 
of each of his annual reports. 

The sum of, ten hundred dollars, or 
such part thereof as may be needed, 
is annually appropriated for clerical 
expenses of this department. 

The traveling expenses necessarily 
incurred by the superintendent of pub- 
lic instruction in the performance of 
the regular duties of his office shall be 
paid as audited and allowed by the 
governor and council, not to exceed 
one hundred and fifty dollars ($150) 
in any one year. 



Chapter 94, 
section 5. 



Chapter 94, 
section 6. 



Chapter 94, 
section 7. 



Chapter 94, 
section 8. 



Chapter 94, 
section 9. 



Chapter 94, 
section 10,ijas 
amended by 
chapter 36, 
session laws 
of 1895. 

Chapter 94, 
section 11, 
enacted by 
chapter 58, 
session laws 
of 1905. 



NORMAL SCHOOL. 



47 



VIII. 



Establish- 
ment. 



Trustees. 



Officers of 
board of 

trustees. 



Teachers. 



Courses of 
study. 



NORMAL SCHOOL. 

The New Hampshire State Normal 
School, as heretofore established and 
located, is continued. The instruction 
in the school shall be confined to such 
branches as will specially prepare the 
pupils to teach in the public schools, 
and to such other branches as are usu- 
ally taught in normal schools. The 
school shall be in session at least 
twenty weeks in each year. 

The management of the school shall 
be vested in a board of trustees com- 
posed of the governor, the superin- 
tendent of public instruction, and five 
other persons who shall be appointed 
by the governor, with the advice of 
the council, and shall hold office for 
five years, one of whom shall be ap- 
pointed each year. 

The board shall choose from its 
members a president and secretary, 
and such committees and other officers 
as may be necessary to transact its 
business, and may choose a treasurer 
who is not a member of the board. 
They shall meet at least once each 
year and shall receive no compensa- 
tion for services, but shall be paid 
their reasonable expenses while en- 
gaged in the performance of their 
duties. 

They shall select and employ a 
principal teacher for the school, who 
shall be allowed, with their advice and 
consent, to select the assistants and 
provide for the discipline of the 
school. 

The trustees, with the principal, 
shall arrange courses of study for the 
school. 



Chapter 95, 
section 1. 



Chapter 95, 
section 2, as 
amended by 
chapter 3, 
session laws 
of 1903. 



Chapter 95, 
section 3. 



Chapter 95, 
section 4. 



Chapter 95, 
section 5. 



48 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



Examina- 
tions, admis- 
sion and 
graduation. 



Tuition free 
upon certain 
conditions. 



Support. 



Teachers at 
institutes. 



Duties of 
superintend- 
ent of public 
instruction in 
connection 
with school. 



The trustees and principal shall pre- 
scribe and control the examinations 
for the admission and graduation of 
pupils, and they shall grant certifi- 
cates of graduation to such as com- 
plete either course and pass the re- 
quired examinations. 

Tuition and graduation shall be free 
to all those completing either course 
of study who will agree to teach in 
the public schools of this state for a 
period equal to the length of such 
course. The trustees shall make such 
provisions as may be necessary to 
effect the purposes of this section. 

The sum of twenty-five thousand 
dollars is annually appropriated for 
the maintenance of the school, to be 
expended as the trustees shall direct. 

The principal and teachers of the 
State Normal School shall assist and 
give instruction at teachers' institutes, 
so far as they can without interfering 
with their duties in the normal school. 
but they shall receive no additional 
compensation, except for travel and 
other actual and necessary expenses 
while so employed. 

The superintendent of public in- 
struction, in his annual report, shall 
state the condition of the school, the 
terms of admission and graduation, 
the times of the commencement and 
close of the sessions, and shall cause 
the same to be printed on the cover 
of the school register. 



Chapter 95, 
section 6. 



Chapter 95, 
section 7. 



Chapter 95, 
section 8, as 
amended by 
chapter 59, 
session laws 
of 1903. 

Chapter 95, 
section 9. 



Chapter 95, 
section 10. 



IX. 
HIGH SCHOOLS. 

Districts may Anv school district may. by vote or Chapter 89, 
establish high by _i aw j establish and maintain a high sectlon9 - 
scnoois. SC hool in which the higher English 

branches of education and the Latin, 
Greek, and modern languages may be 
taught. 



HIGH SCHOOLS. 



49 



Discontinu- 
ance of such 
schools. 



Town must 
maintain. 



Adjoining dis- 
tricts may 
make con- 
tracts for 
establishing 
joint high 
school. 



Districts may 
contract for 
tuition. 



High schools 
in dissolved 
special dis- 
tricts. 



No high school established by a 
vote of a town shall be discontinued, 
or the location thereof be changed, 
except by the superior court, on peti- 
tion of the school board of the town 
-district in which it is located, after 
such notice as the court may order, if 
it shall appear that the educational in- 
terests of the town district require 
such discontinuance or change. 

It shall be the duty of any town in 
which there is a high school, estab- 
lished by vote of the town, to raise 
and appropriate each year sufficient 
money to properly maintain such 
school. 

Two or more adjoining districts in 
the same or different towns may make 
contracts with each other for estab- 
lishing and maintaining jointly a high 
or other public school for the benefit 
of their scholars, and may raise and 
appropriate money to carry the con- 
tracts into effect; and their school 
boards, acting jointly or otherwise, 
shall have such authority and perform 
such duties in relation to schools so 
maintained as may be provided for in 
the contracts. 

Any school district may contract 
with an academy, seminary, or other 
literary institution located within its 
limits or in its immediate vicinity, 
for furnishing instruction to its schol- 
ars; and the school money may be 
used to carry the contract into effect. 

[Contracts made with institutions 
situated outside the state are not 
deemed valid except in the instances 
specified below.] 

Whenever any school district organ- 
ized under a special act of the legisla- 
ture shall vote to abolish such district 
and to unite with the town district, if 
said town district shall vote to receive 



Chapter 20, 
session laws 
of 1905. 



Chapter 72, 
session laws 
of 1905. 



Chapter 89, 
section 10. 



Chapter 89, 
section 11. 



Chapter 64. 
session laws 
of 1891, sec- 
tion 1. 



50 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



Towns must 
maintain such 
schools. 



Discontinu- 
ance of such 
schools. 



Penalty. 



Towns not 
maintaining 
high schools 
must pay tui- 
tion. 



said special district, if said special 
district has for the five years next 
preceding such vote maintained a high 
school, it shall be incumbent on the 
town district with which it unites to 
thereafter keep and maintain within 
the limits of said special district a 
high school for at least thirty-four 
weeks in each year, and of equal grade 
to that which had been previously 
maintained therein by such special 
district, said high school to be open to 
all scholars in the town district, of 
suitable age and qualifications. 

It shall be the duty of said town dis- 
trict to raise and appropriate each 
year thereafter sufficient money in ad- 
dition to the school money which tbe 
town in which it is situated may raise, 
to properly maintain such high school, 
or schools, as may be established 
under the preceding section. 

Any high school hereby established 
may be discontinued, or the location 
thereof changed, by the supreme 
court, on petition of the school board 
of the town district in which it is lo- 
cated, after such notice as the court 
may order, if it shall appear that the 
educational interests of the town dis- 
trict require such discontinuance or 
change. 

Any town district failing to comply 
with the provisions of this act, or any 
of them, shall be fined for such neg- 
lect. 

Any town not maintaining a, high 
school or school of corresponding 
grade shall pay for the tuition of any 
child who with parents or guardian re- 
sides in said town and who attends a 
high school or academy in the same or 
another town or city in this state, and 
the parent or guardian of such child 
shall notify the school board of the 



Chapter 64, 
session laws 
of 1891, sec- 
tion 2. 



Chapter 64, 
session laws 
of 1891, sec- 
tion 3. 



Chapter 64, 
session laws 
of 1891, sec- 
tion 4. 

Chapter 96, 
session laws 
of 1901, sec- 
tion 1, as 
amended by 
chapter 118, 
session laws 
of 1903. 



HIGH SCHOOLS. 



51 



Liability for 
tuition. 



Rebate from 
state in cer- 
tain cases. 



district in which he resides of the high 
school or academy which he has deter- 
mined to attend; provided, hoivever, 
that no town shall be liable for tuition 
of a child in any school, in excess of 
the average cost per child of instruc- 
tion for the regularly employed teach- 
ers of that school and the cost of 
text-books, supplies, and apparatus 
during the school year preceding, nor 
in any case, shall the town be liable 
for tuition for any child in excess of 
forty dollars per year. 

If any town in which a high school 
or school of corresponding grade is 
not maintained neglects or refuses to 
pay for tuition as provided in the pre- 
ceding section, such town shall be 
liable therefor to the parent or guar- 
dian of the child furnished with such 
tuition, if the parent or guardian has 
paid the same, or to the town or city 
furnishing the same in an action of 
contract. 

Eight thousand dollars shall be ap- 
propriated annually from the state 
treasury for the payment of tuition in 
high schools and academies, to be paid 
by the state treasurer in the month of 
December of each year to the treas- 
urers of such towns as are entitled, 
and in such manner as is hereinafter 
provided, upon a sworn certificate of 
the superintendent of public instruc- 
tion of the sums clue. 

Towns whose rate of taxation for 
school purposes in any year is $3.50 
or more on $1,000, and whose average 
rate of taxation for all purposes for 
five years next preceding is $16.50 or 
more on $1,000, shall receive a share 
of said appropriation as follows: 

If the tax rate is from $16.50 to 
$17.49, one tenth of the tuition paid. 



Chapter 96, 
session laws 
of 1901, sec- 
tion 2. 



Chapter 96, 
session laws 
of 1901, section 
3, as amended 
by chapter 89, 
session laws 
of 1905. 



52 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



Definition of 
high school. 



Approval by 
superintend- 
ent of public 
instruction. 



If the tax rate is from $17.50 to 
$18.49, two tenths of the tuition paid. 

If the tax rate is from $18.50 to 
$19.49, three tenths of the tuition paid. 

If the tax rate is from $19.50 to 
$20.49, four tenths of the tuition paid. 

If the tax rate is from $20.50 to 
$21.49, five tenths of the tuition paid. 

If the tax rate is from $21.50 to 
$22.49, six tenths of the tuition paid. 

If the tax rate is from $22.50 to 
$23.49, seven tenths of the tuition paid. 

If the tax rate is from $23.50 to 
$24.49, eight tenths of the tuition paid. 

If the tax rate is from $24.50 to 
$25.49, nine tenths of the tuition paid. 

Over $25.49, the whole of such tu- 
ition. 

If more than $8,000 should be needed 
in any year for the purposes of this 
act, the said $8,000 shall be distrib- 
uted pro rata to the towns entitled to 
receive the same, in accordance with 
the foregoing classification. 

By the term "high school" or "acad- 
emy," as used in this act, is under- 
stood a school having at least one 
course of not less than four years, 
properly equipped and teaching such 
subjects as are required for admission 
to college, technical school, and nor- 
mal school, including reasonable in- 
struction in the constitution of the 
United States and in the constitution 
of New Hampshire, such high school 
or academy to be approved by the 
state superintendent of public in- 
struction as complying with the re- 
quirements of this section. And said 
superintendent is authorized to ap- 
prove a school maintaining any part 
of such course for the part so main- 
tained. 



Chapter 96, 
session laws 
of 1901, section 
4, as amended 
by chapters 31 
and 118, ses- 
sion laws of 
1903, and chap- 
ter 19, session 
laws of 1905. 



HIGH SCHOOLS. 



53 



Literary fund 
for scholars 
attending 
high schools 
and acade- 
mies. 



Districts may- 
make con- 
tracts for tui- 
tion. Status 
ofschoolswith 
which con- 
tracts are 
made. 



Towns paying tuition of scholars in 
high schools or academies shall receive 
a proportionate share of the literary 
fund for the attendance of such pupils. 
All academies and private schools 
shall be furnished with copies of the 
school register, and shall make an 
annual statistical report to the state 
superintendent. 

Any school district may make con- 
tracts with any academies or high 
schools or other literary institu- 
tions located in the state for fur- 
nishing instruction to its scholars, and 
such school district may raise and 
appropriate money to carry into effect 
any contracts in relation thereto. 
Every such academy or high school or 
literary . institution shall then be 
deemed a high school maintained by 
such district, if approved by the super- 
intendent of public instruction in ac- 
cordance with section 4 of this act. 

The school districts in the towns of 
Walpole, Mason, Rollinsford and Con- 
way may make contracts with Bellows 
Falls, Vt., Townsend, Mass., Berwick 
Academy, Me., and Pryeburg Acad- 
emy Me., respectively, for furnishing 
instruction to their pupils of high 
school grade, and may raise and appro- 
priate money to carry such contracts 
into effect. 

The principal of each college, acad- 
emy, seminary, or other institution of 
learning incorporated by the laws of 
this state, shall annually and before 
the first day of November of each year, 
forward to the New Hampshire Gene- 
alogical Society, for its library, one 
copy of each printed catalogue of its 
officers and students and courses of 
studies published during the year next 
preceding said date. 



Chapter 96, 
session laws 
of 1901, sec- 
tion 5. 



Chapter 96, 
session laws 
of 1901, section 
6, as amended 
bychapterllS, 
session laws 
of 1903, and 
chapter 90, 
session laws 
of 1905. 



Chapter 122, 
session iaws 
of 1907. 



Chapter 40, 
session laws 
of 1907. 



54 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



X. 



District may 
require board 
to appoint 
superintend- 
ent. 



Two or more 
towns or 
special dis- 
tricts may 
jointlyemploy 
superintend- 
ent. 



Two or more 
towns or 
special dis- 
tricts may 
form super- 
visory dis- 
trict. 



SUPERVISION. 

A school district may require the 
school board to elect or appoint a 
superintendent of schools, who shall 
hold office for such term, be vested 
with such of the powers and charged 
with such of the duties of the school 
board, and be entitled to such compen- 
sation as it may provide; and such 
district may raise and appropriate 
money to pay the compensation. 

Two or more towns or special dis- 
tricts may, by vote of each, form a 
district for the purpose of employing 
a superintendent of the public schools 
therein, who shall perform in each 
town the duties prescribed by law and 
the regulations of the school boards. 

Such superintendent shall be ap- 
pointed by a joint committee com- 
posed of the school board of each of 
the towns of said district, who shall 
determine the relative amount of ser- 
vice to be performed by him in each 
town, and shall fix his salary and 
apportion the amount thereof to be 
paid by the several towns, and certify 
such amount to the treasurer of each 
town. Said joint committee shall, for 
said purposes, be held to be the agents 
of each town composing such district. 

Two or more towns or special dis- 
tricts, or their school boards when 
duly authorized by their respective 
districts, may, by vote of each, form a 
supervisory district for the purpose of 
employing a superintendent of the 
public schools therein, who shall per- 
form in each town the duties pre- 
scribed by law and by the regulations 
of the school boards, giving thereto his 
entire time. 



Chapter 90, 
section 24, as 
amended by 
chapter 48, 
session laws 
of 1895. 



Chapter 47, 
session laws 
of 1895, sec- 
tion 1. 



Chapter 47, 
session laws 
of 1895, sec- 
tion 2. 



Chapter 77, 
session laws 
of 1899, sec- 
tion 1 . 



SUPERVISION. 



oo 



Joint super- 
visory com- 
mittee. 



State will pay 
one-half 
salary of 
superintend- 
ent. 



Size of dis- 
tricts. 



Length of 
school year. 



The school boards of the several dis- 
tricts forming the supervisory district 
shall constitute a joint committee 
which for all purposes of this act shall 
be the agent of each district therein 
represented. Said committe shall 
meet between April 1 and August 1 of 
each year, as may be agreed upon by 
the chairmen of the several boards 
and organize by the choice of a chair- 
man, a secretary, and a treasurer. It 
shall elect a superintendent for such 
supervisory district, determine the 
character and value of his services, 
and apportion the same among tbe 
several districts, certifying such appor- 
tionment to their respective treasurers. 

Any town or special district which 
shall unite with one or more districts 
to form a supervisory district, which 
shall employ as superintendent, at an 
annual salary, a person holding a per- 
manent state teacher's certificate, and 
shall certify through its chairman and 
secretary such facts to the state treas- 
urer, shall be entitled to one half its 
apportioned share of said salary, said 
sum to be paid by him in December of 
each year to the town treasurer of 
each town in said supervisory district, 
upon sworn statement of the state 
superintendent of public instruction 
certifying as to what amount each 
town ^ is "entitled. This section shall 
not apply to cities. 

[The town's portion of the super- 
intendent's salary may be paid out of 
the school money.] 

Supervisory districts of less than 
three towns formed under this act 
shall employ not fewer than twenty 
nor more than sixty teachers. 

Every school district in the state 
shall maintain its schools at least 
twenty weeks during every school 
year. 



Chapter 77, 
session laws 
of 1899, sec- 
tion 2. 



Chapter 77, 
session laws 
of 1899, section 
3, as amended 
by chapter 18, 
session laws 
of 1901. 



Chapter 77, 
session laws 
of 1899, section 
4, as amended 
bychapter 115, 
session laws 
of 1905. 

Chapter 77, 
session laws 
of 1899, sec- 
tion 5. 



56 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



Equalization 
fund. 



The sum of twenty-five thousand 
dollars ($25,000) shall be appropriated 
annually from the state treasury for 
the purposes of this act. Twenty-five 
per cent, of the entire appropriation 
shall be set apart each year to carry 
into effect section 3 of this act. Any 
portion of the sum so set apart, and 
not expended as aforesaid, shall re- 
main in the state treasury, to be used 
in any subsequent year, if needed, to 
carry out the purposes of said section. 
The remainder shall be paid by the 
state treasurer in December of each 
year to all the towns of the state in 
which the equalized valuation is less 
than $3,000 for each child of the aver- 
age attendance in the public schools 
of such towns during the school year 
next preceding, and such other towns 
as may be added as hereinafter pro- 
vided on the sworn statement of the 
superintendent of public instruction 
certifying as to what amount each 
town is entitled, in direct proportion 
to said average attendance, and in in- 
verse proportion to the equalized val- 
uation per child, and shall be used ex- 
clusively for the support of the pub- 
lic schools. The governor and council 
may, upon recommendation of the 
superintendent of public instruction, 
add to the class of towns specified 
above in this paragraph such other 
towns as may seem from their pecu- 
liar conditions to need relief from too 
great a burden of school taxation. 

The sum of ten thousand dollars is 
hereby appropriated from the state 
treasury for the year 190S, in addition 
to the sum appropriated by section 6, 
chapter 77, Laws of 1899, for the pur- 
pose of carrying into effect the pro- 
visions of section 3 of said chapter 77, 
Laws of 1899, entitled "An act to 



Chapter 77, 
session laws 
of 1899, sec- 
lion 6. 



Chapter 115, 
laws of 1907. 



SUPERVISION. 



57 



No town to 
receive bene- 
fit unless its 
reports have 
been properly 
made. 



Withdrawal 
from super- 
visory dis- 
trict. 



equalize the school privileges of the 
cities and towns of the state." 

No town shall receive any benefit 
under this act nor any portion of the 
literary fund unless its returns have 
been made to the superintendent of 
public instruction as required by chap- 
ter 92, section 13, of the Public Stat- 
utes, nor unless its schools have been 
maintained at least twenty weeks dur- 
ing the school year next preceding. 

Any town or special district which 
has united, or may hereafter unite, 
with any other town or towns, dis- 
trict or districts, to form a super- 
visory district, as provided by chapter 
77 of the Laws of 1899, may, at any 
annual school district meeting, by 
vote, rescind such action, and there- 
upon shall, at the end of the school 
year or at the expiration of the period 
for which such supervisory district 
may then already have contracted for 
the services of a superintendent, cease 
to be a part of such supervisory dis- 
trict. 



Chapter 77, 
session laws 
of 1899, sec- 
tion 7. 



Chapter 81, 
session laws 
of 1901. 



XI. 



Town clerks 
must notify 
superintend- 
ent of public 
instruction 
names of local 
school board. 



UNCLASSIFIED. 

Every town clerk, within thirty days 
after the annual meeting, shall report 
to state officers the names and post- 
office addresses of town officers as fol- 
lows: ... to the state superintend- 
ent of public instruction, those of the 
local school board. . . . Any town 
clerk who neglects to make reports as 
required by this section shall be sub- 
ject to pay a fine of twenty dollars for 
each failure, one half for the use of 
the department to which he fails to 
report, and the other half for the use 
of the town. 



Chapter 43, 
section 3. 



INDEX. 



Academy, definition of 52 

tuition rebate paid by state 7, 8, 51 

town 7, 8, 50 

Academies approved by superintendent of public instruction, 

■when 52 

contract with districts 10 

Auditors of school districts 21 

Bellows Falls, Vermont, High School 11, 53 

Berwick, Maine, Academy 11, 53 

Board (school) compensation of 36 

niay dismiss teachers, when 29 

penalty for misappropriation of money 5 

neglect of duty 34 

report of 33 

to accept certificate issued by superintendent of 

public instruction in lieu of 38 

to appoint truant officer 34 

to convey pupils 29 

to examine teachers 30 

to file report with selectmen 33 

to furnish registers 32 

to hire teachers 29 

to make regulations 30 

repairs 29 

report to superintendent of public in- 
struction 34 

to prescribe studies 30 

to provide fuel 29 

text books 31 

to purchase flags 31 

to send notices to parents 43 



INDEX. 59 

Board (school) to visit schools 32 

vacancies in, how filled 22 

By-law, district 39 

Certificate for teachers 30, 37 

of pupil's attendance in private schools 42 

Check list to be used at school meeting, when 18 

Children, certificates furnished to, when "41 

enumeration of, by truant officer, when 3^ 

Clerk cf district, duty of 20 

how chosen 20 

vacancy, how filled 20 

Contagious diseases 39 

Constitution of New Hampshire and United States, when read . 30, 52 
Conway district 11, 53 

District clerk, see clerk. 

definition of 8 

legal organization of . -. 8 

may contract for tuition in high school or academy. . .49, 53 

may raise additional money 5 

meetings, when held 16 

where held 17 

how warned 17 

money raised for what purposes 8, 9 

officers, see officers. 

taxes 9 

Districts, annexation of territory to 15, 1H 

dissolution of ' 1 1 

high school maintained in 10 

may establish joint high schools 49 

may hire money 9 

scholars admitted to from other towns and districts. . . 11 

schools maintained jointly by 11 

selectmen assess tax for payment of money hired by . . 9 

Dog tax, when used for school purposes. 6 



60 INDEX. 

Employment of children 40 

illegal, penalty for 4.2 

minors 41 

Enumeration of children 36 

Equalization fund 6, 56 

Evening schools 2.2, 37 

Examination of teachers by school board 30 

superintendent of public instruction 37 

Flags and flagstaffs 31 

Fryeburg Academy, Maine 11, 53 

Guardians, penalty for neglect to send children to school 42 

High schools 10, 48, 52 

approved by superintendent of public instruction, 

when 52 

contract with districts 10 

established by joint districts 49 

to be continued when 49 

tuition, rebate from state 7, 51 

tuition shall be paid by town 50 

Holidays 32 

Industrial School, truants committed to 40 

Institutes (teachers'), how organized. 45 

how paid for 43 

teachers may attend 36 

Literary fund, districts when not to receive 7 

how distributed 5 

how expended 5 

misapplication of 6 

to be apportioned to tuition pupils, when 53 

unincorporated places not to receive 5 

what termed 5 

Mason district 11, 53 

Manufacturing establishments, children employed in when. . .35, 40 



INDEX. 61 

Manufacturing establishments, penalty for illegal employment 

of children in 41 

Mechanical, see manufacturing. 
Mercantile, see manufacturing. 

Meetings (school) annual 16 

special, when held 17 

where held 17 

money raised at 17 

Memorial Day exercises 32 

Minimum school year 55 

Minors, employment of 41 

Moderator, how chosen 20 

power and duty 20 

Money, appropriation of 3,4 

assessment additional 4, 5 

for school purposes 4 

assignment to districts 4 

raised at special meeting. . 17 

New Hampshire Genealogical Society 53 

Normal School, admission to and graduation from 48 

annual appropriation for 48 

courses of study 47 

management of 47 

principal, how appointed 47 

trustees, appointment of 47 

meetings of 47 

organization of 47 

tuition free upon certain conditions 48 

Officers of school districts 20 

eligibility to office 20 

manner of election 20 

term of office 20 

what 19 

Parents and guardians, penalty for neglect to send children to 

school 42 



62 INDEX. 

Parochial schools, scholars to be vaccinated 38 

Physiology and hygiene 30 

Private schools, certificates of attendance upon when issued. ... 44 

scholars to be vaccinated 38 

Registers furnished by state 44 

properly kept by teachers 32 

used in private schools 44 

Rollinsford district 11, 53 

Rules and regulations to be prescribed by board 30 

Scholars attending without right: penalty 39 

dismissed, when 39 

to attend where 38 

School board, see board. 

day and week, established 36 

disturbance of penalty for 43 

year, required length of 55 

Schoolhouse debt 9 

lots, how enlarged 24 

yards, shade trees for 27 

Schoolhouses, barbed wire fences not to be near 28 

county commissioners, to locate when 23 

doors to open outwards 27 

how located 23 

in cities, board to buy land 26 

regulations for building, etc 27 

location conclusive, how long 24 

saloons not to be within certain distance 28 

school board to locate when 23 

selectmen to appraise land damages when 25 

build when 26 

slaughter-houses not to be near .'. . 28 

used for what other purposes 26 

Schools, where kept 26 

Special districts, dissolution of 11-13 

maintenance of high schools, when dissolved. . 14 



INDEX. (53 

Special districts, trust funds of 13 

Superintendent of public instruction, appointment of 44 

biennial report sent to 

school boards 46 

duties of 44 

in co nnection 
with Normal 

School 48 

term of office 44 

to compile school laws, 

when 45 

enforce laws relating to 

attendance 43 

lecture in towns when . . 45 
organize teachers' insti- 
tutes , . 45 

prescribe form of register 44 

travelling expenses of . . . . 46 

Superintendent of schools, district may require board to appoint 22 

supervisory district, how appointed. 54 
must hold state 

certificate. ... 55 
must give entire 

time 55 

state to pay 
half the sal- 
ary, when ... 55 

Supervision 54 

Supervisory committee, joint 55 

district, minimum number of schools 55 

withdrawal from 57 

districts authorized 54 

fund 6, 56 

Tax of ward, where 4 

Taxes for school purposes 9 

Teachers may atteud institutes 36 



64 INDEX. 

Teacher to make out register ,,. ; 32 

Text books not to favor particular sect or party 32 

Town clerks to report local school board 57 

Townsend, Mass., High School 11, 53 

Treasurer of school district, see officers. 

Truant officer, compensation of 34 

duties of 34, 35 

Vaccination 38 

Voters, check list of 18 

penalty for illegal 19 

who are 18 

Walpole district 11, 53 

Warrant for school meeting 17, 18 



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